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When he wasn’t disassembling things, Willenberg was exploring the world around him with a scientist’s eye. “I had telescopes and microscopes. I’d examine standing water and look at the planets at a fairly young age. I remember looking through the telescope at the sun for the first time with special filters. It was really amazing. I had seen other things,…